Thesis Open Access
Visualising Data from CloudSat and CALIPSO Satellites
Kuma, Peter
Thesis supervisor(s)
Bašták Ďurán, Ivan
CloudSat and CALIPSO are NASA, resp. joint NASA and CNES polar-orbiting Earth observation satellites. CloudSat carries a millimetre-wave radar for observation of clouds. CALIPSO carries a visible and infrared polarisation-sensitive lidar for observation of aerosols and ice-phase clouds. Data from these satellites are distributed in the form of HDF4 and HDF-EOS2 product files. We introduce a software tool ccplot capable of visualising several data sets from the CloudSat 2B-GEOPROF, CALIPSO Lidar L1B Profiles, CALIPSO Lidar L2 Cloud Layer and Aqua MODIS L1B products. ccplot is a scriptable, unix command-line tool. We released ccplot on the Internet under the open-source-compatible BSD license.
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- Publication date:
- June 1, 2010
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- Keyword(s):
- CloudSat CALIPSO MODIS A-Train HDF4 HDF-EOS2 ccplot plot visualisation
- Awarding University:
- Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia
- License (for files):
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International